4. “The arts are the rainforests of society.
They produce the oxygen of freedom, and
they are the early warning system when
freedom is in danger.”
- June Wayne
American printmaker,
tapestry designer,
painter, and educator
5. Participants in the 2012 Women’s
Read-In singing and playing
musical instruments
6. “In human life, art may
arise from almost any
activity, and once it
does so, it is launched
on a long road of
exploration, invention,
freedom to the limits
of extravagance [...]”
- Susanne Langer
(1895-1985), US
educator &
philosopher
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Susanne_Langer/
7. Art against the odds: from
slave quilts to prison
paintings
by Susan Goldman Rubin
Rubin defines "outsider artists" as
"children and adults who felt
compelled to make different kinds
of art despite living under the most
awful conditions." In this unique
overview, she profiles artists, who
often have little or no training, and
have suffered incarceration, war,
racism, poverty, or mental illness
while working.
King Library, Ground Floor, IMC
N6505.5 .O87 R83 2004
8. “Children, if you are tired,
keep going; if you are
scared, keep going; if you
are hungry, keep going; if
you want a taste of
freedom, keep going.”
- Harriet Tubman
c. 1820-1913, American
abolitionist
Harriet Tubman. In Ratcliffe, S.(Ed.), Oxford Essential Quotations. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 Feb. 2014, from
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191735240.001.0001/q-oro-00011037.
9. cannot be parceled out in
pieces to suit political
convenience. I don’t
believe you can stand for
freedom for one group of
people and deny it to
others.”
“Struggle is a never ending
process. Freedom is
never really won, you
earn it and win it in every
generation.”
- Coretta Scott King,
American author, activist,
12. “I would like to be known
as a person who is
concerned about freedom
and equality and justice
and prosperity for all
people.”
“Whatever my individual
desires were to be free, I
was not alone. There
were many others who
felt the same way.”
-Rosa Parks (1913-2005),
US black civil rights
leader
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Rosa_Parks/
13. Maria W. Stewart was the
first American woman to
speak to a mixed audience of
men, women, whites and
blacks, and the first African-
American woman to lecture
about women’s rights and
make public anti-slavery
speeches.
“… there are no chains so
galling as the chains of
ignorance [...]”
18. Struggle for Women’s Rights and Civil
Rights Linked
“[...] At the World Anti-Slavery
Convention in London in 1840,
Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Lucretia Mott were refused seats on the
floor by male abolitionists because they
were women.”
“As a result, Stanton and Mott vowed to
hold a convention on women's rights,
which they hosted in 1848 in Seneca
Falls, New York. At the convention,
delegates adopted a "Declaration of
Sentiments," a document modeled on the
Declaration of Independence. It was
signed by 68 women and 32 men,
including African-American abolitionist,
Frederick Douglass.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-yeakel/march-on-washington_b_3769211.html
19.
20. Women in the trees:
U.S. women’s short
stories about battering
and resistance, 1839-
1994
edited by Susan
Koppelman
King Library (2nd floor)
PS648.A32 W66 1996
21. Walk myself home: an
anthology to end
violence against
women
by Andrea Routley
King Library (2nd floor)
PR9194.52.W66 W355
2010
23. What’s a nice girl like
you doing in a
relationship like this?:
Women in abusive
relationships
edited by Kay Marie
Porterfield
King Library (2nd floor)
PS509.W6 W45 1992
24. Getting out: life stories
of women who left
abusive men
by Ann Goetting
King Library (2nd floor)
HV6626.2 .G65 1999
25. Check out the
Women’s Read-In
page on our
Diversity Guide
for more information
and resources!
http://libguides.lib.miamioh.
edu/diversity
